Just after its 40th birthday, the Star Trek world has made a big announcement. The original Star Trek series has been digitally remastered for TV syndication. The remastering and re-release of the series marks its return to syndication. It will begin airing in syndication this month, so keey an eye on your local listings. This marks the first time since the late 1980s that the original Star Trek has been in broadcast syndication. It is presently available on Sci-Fi channel and G4 cable networks.

Some of the remastered features are planets, stars, ships, graphics, backdrops, phasers, and even an newly-remastered theme. The theme has been rerecorded with a 29-piece orchestra and planets have been enhanced for realism. In addition, some stations and markets will be carrying the entire 79-episode series in hi-definition.

I don’t know about you, but I plan on catching it.

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1. 
   Devin de Gruyl
   September 19, 2006 at 4:26 pm

   Just to add to the list of cable outlets: In November TV Land will also be airing TOS. They’ve already done a mini-marathon earlier this month, on the actual 40th anniversary date (September 8th) - including, at 8 PM EST, showing “The Man Trap,” the first aired episode of the series, forty years to the hour after the show was introduced to America on NBC.

   I wonder if this “remastered TOS” will go the Lucasian route and play some digital tricks to make it “fit” better with later series (digitally sneaking Sisko et al into “Tribbles,” for instance, to match the infamous DS9 episode), or if it’ll just be cleaning up the masters of the accumulated cruft of four decades’ worth of deterioration and endless replay. Either way, as someone who grew up on TOS, I can’t wait to see the result…

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